Gary Fingerhut no longer is the “acting” executive director of Cleveland Clinic Innovations.

It's no surprise that the Clinic would name him the official leader of the organization: Mr. Fingerhut's expertise is related to health care information technology. Health care IT is a particularly hot segment within the medical technology sector, and a growing number of the inventions and spinoff companies coming out of the Clinic are IT-related.

Before Mr. Fingerhut joined Cleveland Clinic Innovations as its general manager for IT commercialization two years ago, he was co-founder and general manager of regulatory compliance software maker Axentis, a Cleveland company that was bought by Wolters Kluwer Tax and Accounting in 2009. He previously was co-founder and CEO of a software development and technology consulting firm called Business Technologies.

That experience should serve the Clinic well as it works to commercialize more health IT technologies through Cleveland Clinic Innovations, according to a statement attributed to Dr. Thomas Graham, chief innovation officer at the Clinic.

Mr. Fingerhut was named acting executive director in April, after the previous director, Chris Coburn, announced he was moving to Boston.

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